Corrections and clarifications

• On two occasions we have incorrectly stated that the Australian Green party was either about to have, or as it transpired on Saturday, had indeed achieved, its first elected MP. Adam Bandt was the first Green candidate to win a seat in the lower house of the Australian parliament at a general election; the first ever Green party MP was elected in a byelection in 2002 (Greens poised for poll success in Australia, 19 August, page 20; Australians vote in tightest election race for 50 years, 21 August, page 19).

• In a story examining the difficulties of donating to political parties we stated that Marcia Williams, Harold Wilson's political secretary, became Lady Falkender in Wilson's resignation honours list of 1976. In fact she became a life peer in 1974 (The difficulties of donations, 21 August, page 7).

• Homophone corner: "And then you compare the slave trade at its peek in the 1780s" (Sex and slavery, 19 August, page 4, G2).